Horseshoe-nail machine



SARGENT & RIDER.

Horseshoe Nail Machine.

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UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE.

G. W. SARGENT AND B. P. RIDER, OF CHELSEA, MASSACHUSETTS.

HORSESHOE-NAIL MACHINE.

Specilcation forming part of Letters Patent No. 52,081, dated January 16, 1866.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, GEORGE W. SARGENT and BENJAMIN P. RIDER, both of Chelsea, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Machine for Making Horse-Nails and We do here- .by declare that the following is a full, clear,

and exact description of the construction and operation 'of the same, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspective view; Fig. 2, a longitudinal elevation.

The following refers to the accompanying drawings, Fig. l. l

a is the balance-wheel; l), cam-Wheel; c, standard holding one end of the main shaft; d, standard holding the rocker-shaft 5 e, lever running from rocker-shaft to groove in cam bj f, rocker-shaft g g g g. levers for Working the hammers I" rr', as shown in Fig. 2; h, standard `in which levers g g g g rock; fi, main shaft running through cam b; j, main standard,in which hammers I r r vibrate, (see Fig. 2 k, lever attached to the cutter l l; l l, cutter; m,

cam working on the mouth-piece, carrying it under the cutter; n, mouthpiece to hold the nail-rod; o, lever which guides the mouthpiece to the cutter Z l; p, standard holding the mouth-piece in position.

The operation ot' our machine consists in the hammers I" 7' 1', as shown in Fig. 2, worked by levers g g g g and vibrated by cam b, as shown in Fig. l.

Having as clearly as possible described the construction and operation of our machine for making horse-nails, what we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is, viz:

rlhe combination of four loose hammers running in grooves, moved by levers working in mortises in said hammers, said levers working on loose pins and vibrated by a cam so formed as to give to each hammer two distinct blows to each revolution of said cam.

GEO. W. SARGENT. BENJA. P. RIDER.

Witnesses JOHN LOW, WILLARD SMITH. 

